What I like so much about my kindle is it's pure simplicity. If I wanted something that I could take notes with, I'd grab my tablet, or my desktop. Yes, you can put bookmarks in and highlight text. The only thing I can do with my kindle is read. If it were to do more, I'd be tempted to do more with it. Miles of battery life, easy to read, simple controls.
So RedHat fully certifies a stack as something that they'll support... Yeah, I don't see the problem here. If you go doing things to it that RedHat hasn't tested, don't be surprise when they won't want to support it. Considering that RedHat only makes money off of support doing anything that takes them away from that core mission is money out the window. Now if you want a blanket support contract or a per diem situation where when you get stuck with your wack ass solution they'll drop engineers on the problem... I'm sure RH would be up for that... provided they're getting paid. Otherwise you'll just taking engineers away from supporting supported configurations and sending them down support rabbit holes.
Exactly what I was thinking... Even though the courts just vacated his case, this is the best next thing... Ultimately, Russia is completely fucked in this situation. Read my older posts regarding my position on this...
SpaceX is planning on doing a controlled pad landing (go watch the Grasshopper video)... no sea water will be involved. I'd imagine their contingency plan would be if there were any anomalies to ditch in the sea.
Making a comparison between the Merlin engines and the SSME's is just silly. The Space Shuttle Main Engine was an amazing piece of engineering... but it was a complicated beast that had to be completely disassembled and thoroughly examined. It's "reusability" was only in the sense that the known good parts from a formally used engine could be combined with new parts to make a new engine.
The Merlin engines on the other hand are comparably simple machines with many fewer parts and from the get go were designed for a cycle life of 40 uses.
At the end of the day SpaceX is going to do the thing that makes them profitable. If this system doesn't work, they'll engineer something else that's reliable and reuseable.
I would suspect that when Putin's involved... there's not such thing as free money... Also Russia isn't exactly soaking in cash at the moment. Ukraine's infrastructure is a mess and it's going to take a lot of money to fix it. Once your average Russian citizen sees how much it's going to cost in actual Rubles, they'll be pissed about it. There won't be anything they can do about it, not even complain, but they can be pissed about it.
If Russia decides to not fix up Ukraine just take the territory, that's going to look *really* bad too.
I'm going to set aside for a moment what Ukraine becoming part of Russia would mean for the Ukrainian people.
From a smash mouth point of view, I think it would be hilarious to watch Putin choke on the chicken bone that's Ukraine. He backed a leader that for more than 10 years bled the country dry and left it in financial ruins. The Russian minister of finance has already been bitching about how much it's going to cost to fix up Crimea's infrastructure.... Just wait until he gets the bill for Ukraine. With the west financially pulling out of Russia not to mention their dwindling tax base, combined with the 50B that Russia just spend on the Olympics... They're not in a great financial position to suddenly start pouring 10B+ a year into Ukraine. The Ukraine government is still trying to get it's hands on the 15B from the EU/US... Let Russia pick up that bill.
Now, with that all said, Russia taking over Ukraine would be ruinous for the Ukrainian people.
This is somewhat endemic of PCs at this point. We are not in the dark ages anymore... unless you're playing the latest and greatest FPS, even a 5 year old PC works just fine... At this point your OS is likely to wear out before your hardware!
I think the same can be said with tablets. My iPad 2 works just great. I have NO incentive to buy an iPad X (where X > 2). Hardware has gotten so good at this point that every "old" (i.e. ipad2) is still great.
I could be wrong on this, but I thought Pratt was going to be building the RD Amross (which is the american version of the RD-180) starting a couple of years ago. If that's the case then the RD-180's being used on the Atlas V are completely domestic.
With that all said, no bid contracts are shit. The price delta between SpaceX and ULA are large enough that provided SpaceX can demonstrate the same reliability as the the Atlas 5 (so far it has) and the same capabilities (it has) then why not go with the cheaper of the two.
Also, if my assertion in the first paragraph is wrong, then all the more reason to go with SpaceX.
So I'm in the market for a new car and I've been thinking of getting a volt... I have a couple of questions... 1. How did the battery do this winter? 2. Did you buy the optional 220v charger?
Overall likes/dislikes? I suspect if I buy one, I'll end up getting one with all the bells and whistles, etc.
Likely the stripes give the animal multiple advantages. Predators and biting insects. Possibly the long hair might also confer some negatives in terms of being able to disparate heat, etc.
I'm not disagreeing with that. I think it's been a positive for the linux kernel as well, making linux a much more secure platform. I just thought it was funny that the Russians swapped their hardware for something that ostensibly the NSA has had more access to.
If they're worried about the NSA having code running on their tablets.... why did they swap their mach/freebsd running tablets for ones running and OS that's had heavy development from the NSA?
More than a decade ago the NSA got involved in linux development and never left. Is it possible that their security people have poured over the millions of lines of C and assembly that make up the linux kernel and all the drivers that are running on their tablets? Possibly, but highly doubtful.
Finally somebody else who agrees with me! I have long advocated that we should have bases on the moon and mars just in case something bad happens on Earth.
I think it would be a noble goal to not only put a base on the Moon and Mars but to make them self sufficient. Beyond having a self sufficient base it should also have a repository of our institutional knowledge just in case something cataclysmic should happen on Earth. Speaking of eggs... I think that something that should go to these bases as well is a chunk of the eggs and sperm we currently have in cold storage that'll never get used. This would provide a safety net for genetic diversity and provide a starting place in case something bad happens on Earth.
So what happens when I pull up in my model S with a relatively new battery and it gets swapped for a battery that's been to hell and back and can barely hold a charge?
I know my relatives up in Minnesota despite their bitching about it being -60 are glad that it's decimated the ash bore beetle infestation. Up here in the north east we're hoping it'll have the same effect on the Asian longhorn beetle as well.
Though evolution being what it is, enough of these really cold winters and we'll just have populations of these insects that can winter over these temperatures.
Please describe a "rational discussion of the message of the bible." As the saying goes the devil's in the details. In order to make any sense of the bible in any rational sense means doing a hell of a lot of cherry picking. Unless you're advocating that stoning your wife on her fathers doorstep because she's not a virgin on her wedding night is a rational position to hold. (Deutorotomy 22:22)
So right away there's whole chunks of the bible that you're choosing to ignore. What do you keep then? I hope that the pieces you decide are relevant are the same pieces other people find relevant...
The four gospels we NOT written by people named Matthew, Luke Mark and John. Moreover the first three gospels suffer from major synoptic problems. John's gospel is an acid tripping roller coaster ride compared to the first three but in places still has bits and pieces copied from the first three. Six of the thirteen letters attributed to Paul and now considered complete forgeries. The whole thing is a literary train wreck.
I'll now stop whipping this horse and turn my attention to other horses... The ten commandments. Ask yourself this simple question... Imagine you're all all seeing all powerful entity and you have the opportunity to distill your vast knowledge of everything into ten rules... Now looking at the ten commandments, there seems to be some serious room for improvement. Just imagine how many people would have been saved from dying of water borne diseases had one of those commandments had been "If the water is not of the purest mountain stream, boil it." I could belabor this but you get the idea.
Create flash cards that have a horoscope but replace the sign with a number. Then create another set of flash cards that have the astrological sign on one side and the corresponding number on the other side. Have a decent sample size of people try to match up the signs.
This experiment has been run many times and the result is that it's completely random.
Without knowing the sign ahead of time every other horoscope works equally well for any other horoscope. You get out of it what you read into it.
With Russia having the mountain ranges and abundant amounts of cold and snow in other regions, why host the games here? I think this is just Putin waving his dick about.
The bigger issue I have with this whole thing is that Nye is letting Ham frame the debate. They're already talking about making DVD's out of this. What happens if Nye completely obliterates Ham? I don't think this will happen, but if at the end of the whole thing Nye is seen to have taken Ham to task, how do you think they'll edit the DVD? These jokers have shown themselves time and time again to not be interested in the facts. At heart I know that Bill Nye is an educator and believes if even one person in the audience has a eureka moment he's done his job. Unfortunately, I get the sense that the creationists see this as some type of big game hunt.
tl;dr I think the creationists are going to edit the debate to ensure it shows Ham in a great light and show Nye poorly and declare victory.
Backblaze was analyzing their particular experience building a very large storage system using commodity drives. What they found was that certain manufacturers fared better than others. I didn't see anything in their paper about performing any types of performance tests, reliability tests, etc.
This was merely "We put X harddrives of brands A,B,C,D an E of sizes A', B', C', D' and E' and here's how they fared"
I'd assume the drives are capable of using the many write media, it's then the economics of media cost. Also at some point is it easier to just discard the media then worry about a piece in a middle of a backup set going bad after X number writes?
I've just assumed all along that they kept everything. Deleted just meant "not seen".
I'd love to see the machine they built. A 10k stack of bluray discs at 1.2mm a piece is 12m. How are they storing the media so they can get to each piece? I'd imagine their using an ink jet printer to label each one. Maybe they're bundling them in stacks of 100 and labeling each stack?
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What I like so much about my kindle is it's pure simplicity. If I wanted something that I could take notes with, I'd grab my tablet, or my desktop. Yes, you can put bookmarks in and highlight text. The only thing I can do with my kindle is read. If it were to do more, I'd be tempted to do more with it. Miles of battery life, easy to read, simple controls.
So RedHat fully certifies a stack as something that they'll support... Yeah, I don't see the problem here. If you go doing things to it that RedHat hasn't tested, don't be surprise when they won't want to support it. Considering that RedHat only makes money off of support doing anything that takes them away from that core mission is money out the window. Now if you want a blanket support contract or a per diem situation where when you get stuck with your wack ass solution they'll drop engineers on the problem... I'm sure RH would be up for that... provided they're getting paid. Otherwise you'll just taking engineers away from supporting supported configurations and sending them down support rabbit holes.
Exactly what I was thinking... Even though the courts just vacated his case, this is the best next thing... Ultimately, Russia is completely fucked in this situation. Read my older posts regarding my position on this...
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SpaceX is planning on doing a controlled pad landing (go watch the Grasshopper video)... no sea water will be involved. I'd imagine their contingency plan would be if there were any anomalies to ditch in the sea.
Making a comparison between the Merlin engines and the SSME's is just silly. The Space Shuttle Main Engine was an amazing piece of engineering... but it was a complicated beast that had to be completely disassembled and thoroughly examined. It's "reusability" was only in the sense that the known good parts from a formally used engine could be combined with new parts to make a new engine.
The Merlin engines on the other hand are comparably simple machines with many fewer parts and from the get go were designed for a cycle life of 40 uses.
At the end of the day SpaceX is going to do the thing that makes them profitable. If this system doesn't work, they'll engineer something else that's reliable and reuseable.
I would suspect that when Putin's involved... there's not such thing as free money... Also Russia isn't exactly soaking in cash at the moment. Ukraine's infrastructure is a mess and it's going to take a lot of money to fix it. Once your average Russian citizen sees how much it's going to cost in actual Rubles, they'll be pissed about it. There won't be anything they can do about it, not even complain, but they can be pissed about it.
If Russia decides to not fix up Ukraine just take the territory, that's going to look *really* bad too.
I'm going to set aside for a moment what Ukraine becoming part of Russia would mean for the Ukrainian people.
From a smash mouth point of view, I think it would be hilarious to watch Putin choke on the chicken bone that's Ukraine. He backed a leader that for more than 10 years bled the country dry and left it in financial ruins. The Russian minister of finance has already been bitching about how much it's going to cost to fix up Crimea's infrastructure.... Just wait until he gets the bill for Ukraine. With the west financially pulling out of Russia not to mention their dwindling tax base, combined with the 50B that Russia just spend on the Olympics... They're not in a great financial position to suddenly start pouring 10B+ a year into Ukraine. The Ukraine government is still trying to get it's hands on the 15B from the EU/US... Let Russia pick up that bill.
Now, with that all said, Russia taking over Ukraine would be ruinous for the Ukrainian people.
This is somewhat endemic of PCs at this point. We are not in the dark ages anymore... unless you're playing the latest and greatest FPS, even a 5 year old PC works just fine... At this point your OS is likely to wear out before your hardware!
I think the same can be said with tablets. My iPad 2 works just great. I have NO incentive to buy an iPad X (where X > 2). Hardware has gotten so good at this point that every "old" (i.e. ipad2) is still great.
I could be wrong on this, but I thought Pratt was going to be building the RD Amross (which is the american version of the RD-180) starting a couple of years ago. If that's the case then the RD-180's being used on the Atlas V are completely domestic.
With that all said, no bid contracts are shit. The price delta between SpaceX and ULA are large enough that provided SpaceX can demonstrate the same reliability as the the Atlas 5 (so far it has) and the same capabilities (it has) then why not go with the cheaper of the two.
Also, if my assertion in the first paragraph is wrong, then all the more reason to go with SpaceX.
Yeah... considering *everything* has a processor in it and it not protected against EMP... Yeah. It would be a shit show.
Honestly, his insufferable personality is tolerable because on most accounts he's right. Being insufferable and consistently wrong is truly obnoxious.
So I'm in the market for a new car and I've been thinking of getting a volt... I have a couple of questions...
1. How did the battery do this winter?
2. Did you buy the optional 220v charger?
Overall likes/dislikes?
I suspect if I buy one, I'll end up getting one with all the bells and whistles, etc.
Likely the stripes give the animal multiple advantages. Predators and biting insects. Possibly the long hair might also confer some negatives in terms of being able to disparate heat, etc.
I'm not disagreeing with that. I think it's been a positive for the linux kernel as well, making linux a much more secure platform. I just thought it was funny that the Russians swapped their hardware for something that ostensibly the NSA has had more access to.
If they're worried about the NSA having code running on their tablets.... why did they swap their mach/freebsd running tablets for ones running and OS that's had heavy development from the NSA?
More than a decade ago the NSA got involved in linux development and never left. Is it possible that their security people have poured over the millions of lines of C and assembly that make up the linux kernel and all the drivers that are running on their tablets? Possibly, but highly doubtful.
Finally somebody else who agrees with me! I have long advocated that we should have bases on the moon and mars just in case something bad happens on Earth.
I think it would be a noble goal to not only put a base on the Moon and Mars but to make them self sufficient. Beyond having a self sufficient base it should also have a repository of our institutional knowledge just in case something cataclysmic should happen on Earth. Speaking of eggs... I think that something that should go to these bases as well is a chunk of the eggs and sperm we currently have in cold storage that'll never get used. This would provide a safety net for genetic diversity and provide a starting place in case something bad happens on Earth.
So what happens when I pull up in my model S with a relatively new battery and it gets swapped for a battery that's been to hell and back and can barely hold a charge?
I know my relatives up in Minnesota despite their bitching about it being -60 are glad that it's decimated the ash bore beetle infestation. Up here in the north east we're hoping it'll have the same effect on the Asian longhorn beetle as well.
Though evolution being what it is, enough of these really cold winters and we'll just have populations of these insects that can winter over these temperatures.
I wasn't disappointed! On a serious note, I thought they were building the godzilla of ice walls to fix this?
Please describe a "rational discussion of the message of the bible." As the saying goes the devil's in the details. In order to make any sense of the bible in any rational sense means doing a hell of a lot of cherry picking. Unless you're advocating that stoning your wife on her fathers doorstep because she's not a virgin on her wedding night is a rational position to hold. (Deutorotomy 22:22)
So right away there's whole chunks of the bible that you're choosing to ignore. What do you keep then? I hope that the pieces you decide are relevant are the same pieces other people find relevant...
The four gospels we NOT written by people named Matthew, Luke Mark and John. Moreover the first three gospels suffer from major synoptic problems. John's gospel is an acid tripping roller coaster ride compared to the first three but in places still has bits and pieces copied from the first three. Six of the thirteen letters attributed to Paul and now considered complete forgeries. The whole thing is a literary train wreck.
I'll now stop whipping this horse and turn my attention to other horses... The ten commandments.
Ask yourself this simple question... Imagine you're all all seeing all powerful entity and you have the opportunity to distill your vast knowledge of everything into ten rules... Now looking at the ten commandments, there seems to be some serious room for improvement. Just imagine how many people would have been saved from dying of water borne diseases had one of those commandments had been "If the water is not of the purest mountain stream, boil it." I could belabor this but you get the idea.
Create flash cards that have a horoscope but replace the sign with a number. Then create another set of flash cards that have the astrological sign on one side and the corresponding number on the other side. Have a decent sample size of people try to match up the signs.
This experiment has been run many times and the result is that it's completely random.
Without knowing the sign ahead of time every other horoscope works equally well for any other horoscope. You get out of it what you read into it.
With Russia having the mountain ranges and abundant amounts of cold and snow in other regions, why host the games here? I think this is just Putin waving his dick about.
The bigger issue I have with this whole thing is that Nye is letting Ham frame the debate. They're already talking about making DVD's out of this. What happens if Nye completely obliterates Ham? I don't think this will happen, but if at the end of the whole thing Nye is seen to have taken Ham to task, how do you think they'll edit the DVD? These jokers have shown themselves time and time again to not be interested in the facts. At heart I know that Bill Nye is an educator and believes if even one person in the audience has a eureka moment he's done his job. Unfortunately, I get the sense that the creationists see this as some type of big game hunt.
tl;dr I think the creationists are going to edit the debate to ensure it shows Ham in a great light and show Nye poorly and declare victory.
Backblaze was analyzing their particular experience building a very large storage system using commodity drives. What they found was that certain manufacturers fared better than others. I didn't see anything in their paper about performing any types of performance tests, reliability tests, etc.
This was merely "We put X harddrives of brands A,B,C,D an E of sizes A', B', C', D' and E' and here's how they fared"
I'd assume the drives are capable of using the many write media, it's then the economics of media cost. Also at some point is it easier to just discard the media then worry about a piece in a middle of a backup set going bad after X number writes?
I've just assumed all along that they kept everything. Deleted just meant "not seen".
I'd love to see the machine they built. A 10k stack of bluray discs at 1.2mm a piece is 12m. How are they storing the media so they can get to each piece? I'd imagine their using an ink jet printer to label each one. Maybe they're bundling them in stacks of 100 and labeling each stack?
So many questions!